10.21.09 Meeting

Top O’ The Rock Toastmasters
Meeting Minutes (10.21.09)
Midtown Centre Community Room

Meeting Call to Order: 12:08PM

Attendance: Catalina Agustin, Jemerson Diaz, Andrea Siracusa, Sue Stack, Tom Snead. Pat Hubbard and William Clifford.


Club Business/Announcements:

Induction ceremony took place for our two newest members – Pat Hubbard and William Clifford.

An “Area Governor Home Club” ribbon was presented to the Club. As many know, Andrea Siracusa our Club President, is also Area 12 Governor.


MEETING:

Grammarian (Pat Hubbard): Word of the day was assiduous (uh-sij-oo-uh s). The word means working diligently at a task; persevering; industrious; attentive.

Speakers
Speaker #1: Jemerson Diaz - Jemerson provided an interesting speech from the advanced story telling manual titled “Sweet Sixteen.”

Speaker # 2: Sue Stack – Sue practiced her Humorous Speech for the upcoming contest. Her speech was entitled “Help! I am Gadget Challenge.”

Jemerson received the Best Speaker ribbon.

Evaluations
Master Evaluator was Andrea Siracusa
Evaluators were Andrea Siracusa who evaluated Jemerson's speech and Tom Snead who evaluated Marc's speech.

Andrea was voted as Best Evaluator.

Table Topics:
Catalina Augstin provided the table topic session about the upcoming holidays. Pat was voted as best Table Topics Speaker.

Roles
Toastmaster: Tom Snead
Um and Ah Counter : Pat Hubbard
Vote Counter: Catalina Agustin
Timekeeper: William Clifford

NEXT MEETING
Wednesday, October 28

12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m
Midtown Business Centre Community Room

Bldg. 2200, RM 151

Next week’s Toastmaster: Andrea Siracusa
Minutes recorded by:

Sue Stack for Flor Lepervanche, Secretary